In the boundless heaven, the seven-color moonlight complements the light emitted by the candlesticks and lamps on the Ziyunju platform, forming one beautiful halo after another. Xia Qiu was leaning on the table, using a brush to copy some sentences on rice paper that she couldn't quite understand. This was a task Ouyang Xueye taught her. She felt like she was back in the world again, so she It's so late and there's still unfinished homework.
After two more days of training, she could already use her wooden knife to accurately smash the scarecrows set up by Ouyang Xueye along the way while riding fast, and the time was shortening each time. I thought I would get a few words of reward from him, but in this regard he was obviously much stingier than Ouyang Hongye and Ouyang Yong. Not only did he not have a word of praise or encouragement, he also made a new request to her, horseback riding and archery. She had never learned archery before, so everything had to start with the most basic training.
She became more and more confused about the meaning of Ouyang Xueye's training method, and he never bothered to explain too much, but just followed his own ideas, so much so that even Xia Qiu began to have some rebellious psychology. .
That morning, when she heard that Ouyang Xueye wanted her to learn archery, she couldn't help complaining: "I'm better at knife skills than archery. It would be okay if I had enough time to master one more skill, but now my time is limited, isn't it?" Should I choose projects that I am better at to strengthen?”
"Are you good at swordsmanship?!" Ouyang Xueye asked her with a raised corner of his mouth, with a hint of contempt in his tone.
Xia Qiu became even more angry when he heard him asking her this question, so she responded: "Yes!"
"Okay, I'll fight with you a few times!" After Ouyang Xueye said that, he stretched out his hand to summon a wooden sword and made a fighting stance.
Xia Qiu thought that although her strength had not fully recovered compared to before, the swordsmanship routines and combat experience she had learned and realized by herself were still there, and it would not be a problem to compete with Ouyang Xueye for a few rounds, but when she really After fighting with him, he found that the truth was not the case at all.
It is also a wooden weapon, and Ouyang Xueye can make it flow smoothly and majesticly. Even a wooden sword can still make the opponent feel the powerful sword energy. However, looking back at Xia Qiu's movements of wielding the wooden sword, his movements are completely sloppy and weak.
Ouyang Xueye jumped back lightly to avoid Xia Qiu's stabbing knife, then dodged to the left, and then jumped forward to hold down her right wrist holding the knife. Although she understood that this suddenly meant He thought he had lost, but he was still unconvinced in his heart. So she threw him away suddenly, turned around and wanted to attack Ouyang Xueye with a horizontal roundhouse slash.
But when she turned around, she found that Ouyang Xueye had disappeared. He patted her from behind and said, "This is what you call your best swordsmanship. As expected, I can't even use weapons." You’ve already lost before it even comes out!”
Xia Qiu was speechless. What Ouyang Xueye said was absolutely correct. If she encountered a strong opponent like him on a real battlefield, she would probably die in his hands without even having a chance to draw a sword. The huge gap in strength between the two was depressing, but it could also inspire people's fighting spirit. She decided to re-examine the training methods he arranged for herself.
Ouyang Xueye had a lot of weird ideas in her head. Take the book she was copying for example. He required her to copy the entire book three times every night before she could go back to her room to rest. The book was full of incomprehensible words. She read it again and again, but she still didn't understand it.
"A psychic must understand reason first, and then he who understands reason can create something out of nothing... He will not be anxious or dry, he will have a strong soul and body, and he will not be invaded by outsiders... "
She felt that Ouyang Xueye was like a devilish teacher who kept asking difficult questions during class every day and leaving a lot of homework for the students after class. But on the surface, he seemed extremely satisfied with the progress he had arranged, so she had no choice but to force it. Hold on tight.
After the last channeling with Ouyang Xiaoleng, she told Ouyang Xueye about this matter. He repeatedly told her not to tell other people about this matter to avoid causing complications, but she felt a little strange. In this boundless heaven, apart from Ouyang Xueye and the Elk Immortal from Ziyunju, the only people she could talk to were Datou and Yuchan who were both on Bauhinia Island, and none of them seemed like Even if they find out about someone who is going to frame him, what is there to worry about? She couldn't think of a reason, so she could only continue to focus on the heavenly book she had copied.
On the platform where the clouds were peeking out, Ouyang Xueye was sitting on the ground. He leaned against the corner of the chair and drank wine alone in silence. In the past two days, for fear of disturbing Xia Qiu, he no longer invited the Holy Child Wuyou to drink and chat. Once the night in the Infinite Heaven became quiet, Ziyunju seemed particularly deserted, and the anguish in his heart became particularly obvious. It goes without saying how much I miss my wife and children. Even in this seemingly peaceful and boundless heaven, there are still many hidden things that people cannot understand.
Yu Chan had long discovered the emptiness here. In order to prevent herself from degenerating and stopping thinking, she established a classroom to teach people singing and dancing. The same goes for Ouyang Xueye. The book Xia Qiu copied was actually written by him himself. Part of it was the mind-strengthening method that the first demon king Hu Li taught Ouyang Xueye. This method has the power to enhance the soul. The other part of the great effect is some of the mental techniques he has learned on Bauhinia Island in the past ten years. The reason why he asked Xia Qiu to copy this book is so that she can memorize the mental method and keep it in her heart. This mental method will not only help her to summon the plum blade again, but also give her more points to defeat the force that robbed her body at the last moment. The ability of evil spirits.
As for why Xia Qiu was asked to practice riding and shooting, it was because he conducted some investigation after hearing about the enemies in white cloaks that Xia Qiu had mentioned before. Coincidentally, there was an old man on Bauhinia Island who had been in a coma for many years due to serious injuries. During the time when he was in a coma, he lived in the realm of Soul Lift, so he knew the situation there relatively well.
The morning after Xia Qiu arrived at Bauhinia Island, Ouyang Xueye left Ziyun Residence early to visit the old man. The old man was called Mr. He. He was a crane demon during his lifetime. After his death, he became a dead soul and still regarded himself as a wandering crane. He spent most of his time fishing on the shore of the lake, and that day was no exception.
Ouyang Xueye parked his Diao Yan by the lake, dismounted, and tiptoed to his side, but he was still discovered by him. Old He wears a big straw hat with a low brim that covers most of his face. He is also wearing a bamboo hat like that worn by fishermen. He is sitting on a rock, holding a bamboo fishing rod in one hand and a fishing rod in the other. It rests naturally on the thigh. Without looking back he said, "It's really rare for the island owner to come here!"
"Old He!" Ouyang Xueye said as he sat down on another rock. He glanced at the wooden bucket next to him and found that there was nothing in it except a whole bucket of water. He knew that Mr. He's harvest today was not very good. Sample.
"Why do you want to come to me, an idle man?" He asked, raising his straw hat.
"I want to ask you about the Soul Leaving Realm!" Ouyang Xueye grabbed a piece of grass from the side and asked while moving it in his hand.
"Oh? Why is the island owner interested in that place?" He Laowang looked at him and continued to ask, his eyes surrounded by criss-crossing wrinkles full of doubts.
"I was just a little interested after hearing from the Holy Child Wuyou that a group of monsters wearing white cloaks suddenly appeared there recently and would attack outsiders for no reason." Ouyang Xueye did not tell the truth anymore, but made a roundabout way. bend.
"That group of monsters has been there for more than a day or two. I have seen them before, but they should not attack the dead at will. At least I have not been attacked by them. But I heard that they are controlled by someone. Specifically..." Mr. He hesitated when he said this, as if there was something hard to say.
"What? Is there anything you can't tell me?" The more he said this, the more Ouyang Xueye was interested in continuing to ask.
"Someone once told me not to tell others about what I saw and heard in the realm of soul separation, otherwise it will be detrimental to me." A trace of fear suddenly flashed across Mr. He's eyes. He never thought that there would be such a thing. Someone asked him about that world.
"In this boundless heaven, are there still such alarmist people who threaten others?" Ouyang Xueye became more and more concerned.
"Why not?!" Mr. He asked, then turned his face to the side.
"It seems that this person's rights are greater than mine, that's why you have some scruples in front of me for his sake." Ouyang Xueye had probably guessed who the person that Mr. He was afraid of was.
"Island Master, you are a smart man, why do you have to tell me?!" He Lao Lao felt that he was unlucky today. After sitting by the lake for a long time, not only did he not catch a single fish, but he was also caught by Ouyang Xueye. Ask him about things he doesn't want to say.
"Just because I guessed who is threatening you, just tell me what you know. I won't tell anyone else!" Ouyang Xueye said in a sincere tone.
"Okay!" Mr. He knew that he couldn't hide, so he withdrew the fishing line, put the fishing rod on the edge, and continued, "I only know that those white cloaks are actually people in the realm of soul separation. There are special creatures called white bats. They all obey the orders of one person. That person's lair should be in the dense forest in the Soul Leaving Realm, and he and the white bats have been hiding there for a long time. They seem to have been plotting some plan. .When I was still in the realm of soul separation, I often saw him sending those white bats to do things for him. They are very powerful and can even affect the demon world and the infinite heaven."
Ouyang Xueye looked at He Lao and must have told the truth. Considering that Xia Qiu was awake in the dense forest at that time, and the group of white bats were purposefully working for one person, it seems that the reason why they caught She was also following the arrangements of that mysterious figure. She was chased by that group of monsters as soon as she reached the state of soul separation, which showed that those people knew all her actions very well. Based on this speculation, the mysterious man was probably related to Qingyun.
And the person that Mr. He mentioned just now that made him worried and afraid to speak must be the Lord of the Infinite Heaven Realm. When Ouyang Xueye first arrived in the Infinite Heaven Realm, he felt that Changdao was a person who had nothing to do with the world. Although he didn't have much contact with him, he agreed with his free and easy-going way of doing things. Moreover, he originally thought that the Infinite Heaven would be a lifeless place, but when he arrived, he found that it was very vibrant and managed by extraordinary Taoists. The islands often interacted with each other. Every season, they even used the island as their base on Bauhinia Island. The unit holds various competitions, which are very interesting.
But starting from about a few years ago, Fei Dao suddenly seemed to be a different person. He stayed in his palace all day long and stopped interacting with others. He also clearly defined the hierarchical system among the islands, prohibiting the souls of the dead from interacting with each other. Contact with other dead souls outside the island to which you belong. Violators will be escorted by Infinite Walker to his palace above the clouds in the lake for disposal. Because no one has seen these violators who were taken away, no one knows what their fate will be.